As night fell, Sheung Shui Zhuang also fell silent from the hustle and bustle of the day, although the tenants in the village made some money these days, but the long-term poverty made them dare not spend money lavishly, and even at night if it was not necessary, even an oil lamp would not be lit, and it was precisely because of this that before dark, the villagers had an early meal and then went to bed.

In the first half of the night, there may still be the sound of bed boards shaking, children talking and peeing, and the coughing of old people and dogs barking in some courtyards in Zhuangzi, but in the second half of the night, the whole Sheung Shui Village finally fell completely silent, and both people and animals began to fall asleep.

But at this moment, suddenly from the easternmost side of the Zhuangzi quietly touched a few black shadows, these guys are close to the root of the wall, when they meet a dog house, immediately someone will take out a thing from the arms and throw it in, as a result, the dog in the yard immediately stopped barking, so that these people very smoothly touched the courtyard wall of a courtyard.

"Third child, are you sure this is the courtyard?" A tall man in black asked in a low voice.

"Boss, don't worry, my vision is definitely not wrong, there is only a bad old woman living in this yard, but there are a lot of cabbages piled up in the shed on the west side of the yard, as long as we are light, even if the cabbage in the yard is removed, no one will know!" The short man in the shadows replied in a low voice.

"Good! I'll jump in and open the door now, and a few of you will be guarding outside, and you will do everything according to the old rules! As the boss spoke, he reached out and grabbed the corner of the mud wall, and then with a force of his arms, he climbed in very lightly, and then the door was opened, and several black shadows outside entered most of it. The remaining two were outside watching the wind.

But just after the people entered there, they heard a few screams suddenly from the courtyard, and then several black shadows who had just entered ran out in a panic. But there was one person missing, and then a teenager's roar was heard in the courtyard. As a result, the whole Zhuangzi was alarmed, and the men from all the families ran out with the guys, and when they saw the black shadows running for their lives, they immediately blocked them everywhere, and as long as those black shadows were caught up by them, they were immediately beaten, and as a result, the whole Zhuangzi was full of the screams of those black shadows.

The noise on the side of Shangshui Village was also quickly seen by the subordinates of the other courtyard, and Zhao Yan, who was asleep, was also woken up. When he got dressed and came to Shangshui Village, now Wang Qi got up with the villagers, and at the same time tied up five guys in black at the entrance of Zhuangzi, and these black-clothed people were all injured, and one of the most severe zhòng had broken heads.

"What's going on?" Zhao Yan yawned and walked over and asked.

"King Qiyu, these thieves probably want to steal the cabbage of Erdan's family, originally Erdan's grandmother was usually at home alone, but today Erdan just came back from the palace, I didn't expect to meet these thieves, but one of the thieves was broken by Erdan. The remaining few escaped, and we caught five more, but two more let them escape! Zhuangtou Wang Qi stepped forward to report at this time.

"Erbastard?" Zhao Yan was stunned when he heard this. Then I saw a black and thin young man walk out of the crowd, and saluted Zhao Yan and said, "The villain greets the king of the county, these thieves went to the villain's house to steal things." ”

Seeing that it was indeed the second egg who saw him pitiful before, so he asked him to help with the work of the old Suma, Zhao Yan was also stunned, and asked with some curiosity at the moment: "Second egg, you are not small, seven or eight thieves came into your house to steal things." You even dared to knock one out of your body, aren't you afraid that they will beat you in turn? ”

Erdan and Zhao Yan are also more familiar. So when he heard Zhao Yan's question, he immediately replied with a smile: "The villain is not afraid." First, the Zhuangzi is full of fathers and villagers, as long as I speak out, there will be many people who will come out to help immediately, and secondly, the villain has learned some martial arts with General Yang during this time, and it is nothing to deal with these little thieves! ”

When Erdan said the second point, he immediately raised his chest high, and it seemed that he was also very confident in his skills. However, Zhao Yan was a little surprised when he heard this, and asked, "General Yang?" Are you talking about Yang Huaiyu? Does he still live in the same yard where he used to raise livestock? ”

"That's right, it's that General Yang, he still lives there, the villain now he has to practice martial arts every morning, and he secretly followed him to practice at the beginning, and then General Yang appeared, and officially taught me to practice martial arts, don't look at the villain's young age, but it's not a problem to deal with three or five thieves!" Erdan is a teenager in the end, and he subdued a thief with his own hands, so his face was full of excited expressions at this time, and he was boasting about his martial arts practice in and out of his words.

Zhao Yan was strange when he heard this, Yang Huaiyu was sent to his own mansion, mainly to protect the previous corn and sweet potatoes, but now the corn and sweet potatoes have been harvested, and they have also been taken away by Huang Wude, in this way, Yang Huaiyu and they should have returned to the palace a long time ago, in fact, Zhao Yan has always thought that the other party is no longer in the mansion, but he didn't expect Yang Huaiyu to still live in that courtyard and not go back at all, what is going on?

"County King, what should I do with these little thieves? Please command! At this moment, Wang Qi stepped forward with a smile and asked, although the thieves in the village this time are not a good thing, but it also indirectly shows that Shangshui Village is rich and has attracted the attention of those thieves, otherwise if it was placed in the past, I am afraid that those thieves would not even look at Shangshui Village, plus these thieves did not succeed in the end, so Wang Qi is in a very good mood now.

"Disposition?" Zhao Yan pondered for a moment when he heard this, and then asked Lao Fu next to him, "Lao Fu, how did you deal with these thieves who stole things before?" ”

Hearing Zhao Yan's question, Lao Fu replied without even thinking about it: "King Qiyu, thieves who steal things are the most hateful, generally when they encounter this kind of person, they are either killed directly or sent to the official, but these thieves actually stole from the Zhuangzi of our county king's mansion, so the old slave thinks it is better to kill them directly, so as to kill the chickens and monkeys, so as not to have any more thieves who don't open their eyes to make trouble in the future!" ”

Zhao Yan heard that the old Fujian yì was directly killed, and he couldn't help but feel a burst of shame at the moment, although stealing things is a crime, but in the future generations, at most he will be detained for a period of time, and Yan zhòng's sentence will only be a few years before he can come out, and it will be a bit too much to be killed directly.

"Steward Lu said well, the villain also thinks it's best to kill directly, and then throw the corpse outside the Zhuangzi, so that those guys who are worried about our cabbage know that we are not easy to mess with!" What Zhao Yan didn't expect was that Wang Qi actually agreed with Lao Fu's construction, and as soon as his words fell, the tenants behind him also agreed.

In fact, this is not that Lao Fu and the tenants are cruel, but that people in this era have a bitter hatred for thieves, because everyone is very poor, and the little food and money at home are used to save the lives of the family, but if it is stolen by the thief, it is simply the life of the family is stolen, so when the average person encounters a thief, he is beaten to death, and even the government will not care about it afterwards, and even if the thief killed is a habitual offender, he may be praised by the government.

It is precisely because of the above reasons, as well as the acquiescence of the government, so Lao Fu After they caught the thief, the first thing they thought of was to kill them directly, after all, now that Shangshui Village has money to sell cabbage, it will definitely attract the concern of many thieves. Even the few thieves who were caught seemed to have resigned themselves to their fate, and one by one they didn't even bother to cry out for mercy in despair.

However, Zhao Yan, who came from later generations, couldn't agree with Lao Fu's point of view, only to see that after he hesitated for a moment, he finally opened his mouth and ordered: "Forget it if you kill them, after all, they didn't steal anything first, and they didn't hurt anyone, so they will be locked up overnight today, and they will be sent to the government tomorrow for the government to deal with." ”

Hearing Zhao Yan's words, the thieves who closed their eyes and waited for death were all stunned, and raised their heads one by one and looked at the young county king in front of them with some surprise, Lao Fu and Wang Qi were also a little puzzled, but since the county king ordered so, they didn't dare to object, and immediately promised to let people pull down a few thieves and lock them up, of course, this punch and that kick were indispensable, it seems that although these thieves escaped death, the pain of skin and flesh is definitely inevitable.

Early the next morning, several thieves with blue noses and swollen faces were sent to the official mansion, originally Zhao Yan thought that the matter was over, and he also planned to take the time to go to the yard where corn and sweet potatoes had been planted to find Yang Huaiyu, and ask him why he was still staying in the other courtyard.

But what Zhao Yan never expected was that in the next few days, there were thieves every day in Sheung Shui Village, and the targets were all for the cabbage, after all, the cabbage in Tokyo City has risen to five hundred and fifty yuan a catty, it can be said that a cabbage is two or three dollars, plus the tenants of Sheung Shui Zhuang live in the yard is very simple, and the courtyard wall is not high, which is very convenient for thieves to start, and what is worse is that there is a tenant who was really taken by thieves, and the cabbage at home was stolen dozens of catties, and the distressed family cried for several days.

In the face of such rampant thieves, Shangshui Zhuang and the tenants also set up a night patrol team under the organization of Wang Qi, all the young people in the village participated, divided into three teams to patrol in turn, and Zhao Yan also asked the guards of the palace to send some people to join them, which really had an effect, and caught many thieves at once.

Originally, it was a very happy thing to catch the thief, but Zhao Yan was very annoyed, because Lao Fu told him that among the thieves he caught, some of them were thieves who were sent to the government before, that is to say, after these thieves were sent to the government, they were quickly released, and then came to steal for the second time, which made Zhao Yan angry and angry, and immediately decided to go to Kaifeng Mansion to seek justice for his tenants! (To be continued)

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